Elite athletes really are different from you and me. Or, at least their gut microbes are. Scientists who analyzed stool samples of 15 runners a week before and after they competed in the 2015 Boston ...

(CNN) -- Great athletes not only have heart, they have guts -- special guts. Boston Marathon runners and Olympic athletes have higher than usual amounts of Veillonella bacteria in their digestive ...

Researchers headed by a team at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School have identified a type of bacteria in the gut microbiomes of marathon runners—but not sedentary people—that can ...

Mice that were fed bacteria isolated from elite athletes logged more treadmill time than other mice that got bacteria found in yogurt. Aleksandar Kostic, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School, ...